Jogu the Drunk

Jogu the Drunk is a Tiller NPC with a friendship bar. His favorite food is Sauteed Carrots and his favorite gift is Lovely Apple. When you become his Best Friend, Jogu sends Secret Stash with alcohol in the mail and won't charge you anything for crop predictions.

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Comment by lunamoonraker

Jogu the Drunk sits by a pool just behind the main market stalls at The Halfhill Market cooking hub in Valley of the Four Winds. He will give various quests including dailies. He will occasionally take a drink from his mug.

He has a heart reputation bar like some other NPCs relating to some of the quests (not available yet)

He offers advice on crop prices (prehaps related to farming or quests) for 10 gold. His dialogue;

Each of these farmers will also send you a mail containing fun or useful items. For example, Sho will send you the Red Cricket and Old Hillpaw sends you a Straw Hat.

Comment by Cielos

Jogu the Drunk will charge you 25 gold for tips on tomorrow's crops, unless you are Honored with him or higher (Honored = 1g, Revered = 10s, Exalted = nothing). You can give him Lovely Apple as a gift from Dark Soil, which will increase your reputation with him.

Comment by Kiingz

To feed everyone for the day, you'll need to gather the following. To see the quests you'll need to be level 90 and have the food in your inventory.

Comment by sassifrass

Well, I guess Jogu hasn't had his coffee yet. At approximately 06:45 server time, and then again at 07:15, he says, "Ughhh... my head is hazy... try again later." I understand the effect a hangover has on one's ESP and spidey senses, but perhaps a little rep is in order for the gold dump. Oh well, will check again after 08:00 and give an update.

07:30 and 08:00 are a no-go...

And he's still hungover at 08:30 and 09:00. Can't be mad at him, I'm hungover too. Yay, Brewfest!

Sigh, well nothing still at 11:15. Ol' Jogu isn't getting any more gold from me today. Just gonna plant the mats I need. Will try again tomorrow.

07:45 the next day, he gave me a prediction, so it will just take some time to confirm if the time always varies, or if it is usually available after daily reset and there are just some days he is too hungover to make predictions at all.

UPDATE 10/22/12**** Well, he has only failed to give me a prediction one time since the original posts, so it seems there is a low chance that from time to time he will not give a prediction at all for a whole day. Otherwise, he seems to have next day's prediction ready after daily reset. Please reply if you have experienced otherwise.

Also worth noting, when he predicts "jade melons" as the crop to harvest for the next day, he means jade squash. There are jade squash seeds and striped melon seeds, so this was cause for confusion. But squash produces the harvest bonus, not melons.

Comment by BlackBolt

Mail at exalted.

From: Jogu the DrunkSubject: A Letter From Jogu

Well <name>,

Now that we are best frenz, I am gonna share with you my mosht precioushest possessionon.. my shecret shtash.

This is a collekshun of the finest aged drinksh I've ever tashted!

And come talk to me anytime you want a free crop reading.

Enjoy!

Jogu

<The rest of the letter is smeared.>

Comment by Dozag

for those with tom tom addon:macro 1 /way Valley of the Four Winds 29 30 Sho/way Valley of the Four Winds 31 53 Old Hillpaw/way Valley of the Four Winds 31 58 Ella/way Valley of the Four Winds 34 46 Chee Chee/way Valley of the Four Winds 41 30 Fish Fellreedmacro 2/way Valley of the Four Winds 44 34 Haohan Mudclaw /way Valley of the Four Winds 45 34 Tina Mudclaw/way Valley of the Four Winds 48 33 Farmer Fung/way Valley of the Four Winds 53 52 Jogu the Drunk/way Valley of the Four Winds 53 51 Gina Mudclaw

Comment by Batos

Listening to his crop advice yields extra loot if you plant what he recommends. For normal produce, each plant yields 7 instead of 5.

Note: His crop advice for "tomorrow" is what you should plant today to get the bonus.

Edit: To clarify, his tomorrow's crop advice is what you should harvest during the next daily reset. Even though plant's grow at midnight, this bonus doesn't take effect until the dailies reset at 4am. This means that if you plant during the day, listening to his advice, then harvest that night, you will NOT get the bonus.

This also means that you can use the bonus effect TWICE if you plant the day before, harvest, then plant the same plants again, and harvest after midnight but before 4am. Helpful if you want a lot of one type of produce.

Comment by Guy19

He keeps telling me he's hazy and to try again later for two days now.

Comment by HaveyJoe

I was secretly hoping that if I poked him enough, he would say with much slurring:

Comment by wedderkopp78

Can someone tell me if you have to be lvl 90 to give gifts? Cause i have been trying to give Jogu a gift for 3 days now and i cant give it...

Comment by QuickBASIC37

Waypoints for the possible food turn ins... if they're in town, you can just delete the ones that you don't need to visit after you add them. These people either show up in Halfhill Market or they're in one of these places. You can do these once a day.

Comment by Taoma

Forecasts:

Striped Melon Striped melons are quite juishy this time of year! Put some sheeds in the ground, and you will reap the harvest on the morrow.Red Blossom Leek Shpring for a leek, and you might get two.Green Cabbage oooh...ooooh!My shenses are tingling! I see...huge Green Cabbages in your future.White Turnip Fields of white turnips. Raw and shpicy!Scallions Have I ever told you that I hate Scallions?Hate'em! <Jogu lets out a loud belch.>Uunfortunately for me, they're going to be in high season tomorrow.Witchberries Which berries should you plant? Witchberries, of course!Mogu Pumpkin Pumpkins! It'sh gonna be huge, gigantic pumpkins!Juicycrunch Carrot You ever heard of a juishycrunch carrot? They'll never be juishier than tomorrow.Pink Turnip I'm seeing Pink Turnipsh in your future.Jade Squash Jade Melonsh grow the color of milky Jade. Conditionsh will be perfect tomorrow for growing thish vegetable...I think.

Comment by Draggoth

Jogu's forecasts are related to the achievement Listen to the Drunk Fish, basically you use his predictions to plant the corresponding vegetables for the next day. The vegetables you need to plant are:

Note: There's been some comments about this achievement been broken, but as of the writing of this it's been working correctly for me.

Edit: The achievement was hotfixed on 2012/10/19 and it's working now.

Comment by Jonner

Ask Jogu the Drunk about tomorrow's crops and plant seeds, depending on what he say.

Green Cabbage = "Oooh... ooooh! My senses are tingling! I see... huge Green Cabbages in your future."Jade Squash = "Jade Melonsh grow the color of milky jade. Conditionsh will be perfect tomorrow for growing thish vegetable... I think."Juicycrunch Carrot = "You ever heard of a juicycrunch carrot? They'll never be juicier than tomorrow."Mogu Pumpkin = "Pumpkins! It'sh gonna be huge, gigantic pumpkins!"Pink Turnip = "I'm seeing Pink Turnipsh in your future."Red Blossom Leek = "Shpring for a leek, and you might get two."Scallions = "Have I ever told you that I hate Scallions? Hate 'em! <Jogu lets out a loud belch.> Unfortunately for me, they're going to be in high season tomorrow."Striped Melon = "Striped melons are quite juishy this time of year! Put some sheeds in the ground, and you will reap the harvest on the morrow."White Turnip = "Fields of white turnips. Raw and shipicy!"Witchberries = "Which berries should you plant? Witchberries, of course!"

Comment by jefslat

I hear that he drinks like a fish...

Comment by perculia

10 Tiller NPCs have Friendship bars, which are similar to reputation but don't have normal Normal/Friendly distinctions. Instead, there are six segments of 8400 friendship each, with the best level obtainable at 42000 friendship. While gaining friendship, you'll also gain some Tillers reputation.

You can check up on your friendship status at the Tillers Shrine in Sunsong Ranch.

Friendship levels:Stranger: 0-8400

Acquaintance: 8400-16800

Buddy: 16800-25200

Friend: 25200-33600

Good Friend: 33600-42000

Best Friend: 42000-42999

How to gain Friendship:

The easiest way is to give each NPC 5 of their favorite food each day. Completing these meal quests will grant 1,800 friendship.

A harder way to gain reputation is to give friends specific gifts. These are found in piles of Dark Soil to the north of Halfhill which unfortunately cannot be tracked on the minimap. Each friend will grant 540 friendship per gift. In addition, there's one gift each NPC really wants, and turning that item into the specific NPC will grant 900 friendship instead.

Some quests give friendship--either quests that signal you've reached a new friendship level or select dailies.

Comment by Linkcisco

List of links to faction and main NPC page of each Tillers member with friendship bar.

Comment by Mushalor

Note: I'm posting this because, in wanting to find out more about Jogu as a character, I naturally assumed I could find it all through comments posted about him on Wowhead or through reading up on him at Wowpedia. No dice. Turns out, no one had already done the work, so all I could find was bare bones and incomplete lists of quotes he says. In the end, I had to go digging through quest lines and record interactions/various responses during quest/daily turn-ins all the way up to Best Friend.

Maybe the following will save someone else some time and effort if they end up being at all curious about this NPC like I was. (Or maybe this'll just get downvoted as extraneous information, but hey.)

Ultimately, I can only conclude that Jogu makes for a pretty depressing character.

Watertaster Kurashel says, Our brother over there drowns his sorrows in apathy and wine, instead of work and toil.Jogu is from a different tribe than us. He came far from the north, and will not speak much of what led him here.

(credit to spoonzilla and Hvatum)When accepting the quest, A Gift for Jogu, Andi says, Sometimes I feel sad for Jogu. He's the only jinyu around, and I don't think he has any friends. Other than his smelly bottle, of course.During the course of gaining friendship with him, Jogu says several morose statements about himself, too.

You are a good friend, <name>. Maybe my only friend.You know, I've decided I like having you as a friend. Makes me think that maybe I can have other friends, too.

He also implies he lost his whole family. When the daily, Dish for Jogu, is turned in, he'll often remark My family used to make this... They're gone now, but I shtill love thish dish.

My personal speculation is that he may have lost his family to a pretty big catastrophe, perhaps during the on-going war between the jinyu and the hozen. It might even have been more recently, in a skirmish such as the one indicated by the quest Family Heirlooms, where players are sent to retrieve tokens from the dead bodies of the jinyu at Moonwater Retreat. (edit) Turns out Kurashel claims he comes "from the far north" so its likely he's a survivor of the Inkgill Mere casualties. :( (/edit)

Furthermore, jinyu are forbidden to interact outside their own caste, so as a waterspeaker, a caste elevated above the rest, he must have so little solace or companionship--if he has any at all--from his own people. I suspect that those few jinyu who wander around Halfhill on occasion or who visit him directly at his pond, may not actually be showing up with any intention of comforting him--but rather to make use of his particular "gift" to forecast weather for successful crop harvests.

Worse, the parade of people who daily come to him to ply him with gifts and booze just to get his forecasts certainly make an impression on me that he's not wanted by anyone for anything else but to serve as a talking weathervane, rather than being seen as a person worth spending time with.

After reaching Best Friend reputation and Exalted reputation with Tillers, as well as discovering I can "hire" any of the NPCs at Best Friend to come stay at my farm, I decided to give him permanent residence. ...His exuberance at the invitation is kind of heartbreaking Really? That whole pond, just for me? I'll be right there! to the point that I just kind of want to give the guy a hug every time I see him.

Comment by Rylaar

After a while Jogu the Drunk will give you an option for him to move his location to the pond on your personal farm. This didn't happen to me until after I reached Best Friend status with him and Exalted with The Tillers.

Comment by lindawrn

thanx so much to kiings for this awesome guide!

Comment by aggelosdr

Jogu the Drunk ftw <3

Comment by gfysprez

Jogu has sent me over to help Gai Lan with his weed problem so often I have lost count. Now I ask you if I’ve helped out with his weed problem so much don’t you think he should help out with my weeds on my farm by letting me buy some of that awesome Weed-B-Gone?

Comment by zuljintoon

BLIZZARD'S EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON DEALING WITH THE ADDICTED

Blizzard is very upfront with the status of this NPC. He is a drunk, a NPC with an addiction.Is he a nice person? Sure, he helps me get a 40% increase in my crops. Is he a funny person? Absolutely, “you should have seen the look on your face”.

And does he deserve my empathy? Well, (/proud) I’m his only friend and he's even lost his family (. . . Or perhaps he's driven his family and friends away by converting everything they had of value into booze.)

Is he intelligent? – Well, he’s gotten me to give him 25g twice, and smaller amounts several times. As well as smaller amounts on alts to determine if the weather is the same for everyone (/bonk self). And he’s obviously gotten me to give him alcohol - an inexpensive vendor drink, 5 pricier ones, and 10 (100 farm mats at 4g each = 400g) I made for him (that are known to cause massive headaches, but I gave them to him anyway). And now he just wants a taste of 20 mad breakfast brew . . . which will normally satisfy 20 raids. <Oh yeah, I’m thinking he just may be hitting me up for that brewery next.>

My advice - one would be wise NOT to fuel an alcoholic’s addiction. Stick with giving Jogu easily digested food – Sauteed Carrots and Lovely Apple – and you too will become best friends soon enough. (BTW, he has a lot of friends, he just can’t remember them. And the cost of predictions at even Buddy level is just 10s.)

/Welcome to Blizzard’s educational program on dealing with the addicted.

Comment by idhauntthat

@ screenshots(as of 4/29/2013):He eats his own kind?Must be SOME KINDA LIQUOR te'ya dat righ'nah!

Comment by AnnatarLG

For what it's worth, when you receive the crop advise, you must harvest those crops the next day to receive the bonus. If you wait 2+ days, there is no bonus. This should be obvious, since the advise is a prediction for tomorrow, but still worth noting, since it is not just a buff cast on the crops you plant today.

Comment by wolfeyex

I ain't doing any reputation quests with this guy because I can't stand looking at how he is throwing his life away

Comment by chadcarter

I am lvl 90 and have all farmers as friends. I need Jogu to tell me it's ok for pink turnips but I never see him anymore. Any suggestions?

Comment by SaynaTheSpiffy

This guy drinks like a fish!

Comment by SoooWhoCares

As you may have noticed the reputation with the NPCs for the "Friends on the Farm" achievement is not displayed correctly: It shows a full bar while not 100% have been reached. This macro will show you with who you can still gain reputation:

/run local t={1273,1275,1276,1277,1278,1279,1280,1281,1282,1283} print("Reputation missing:") for i=1,10 do local name,mis,_,_,max,val=GetFactionInfoByID(t) max=max-1 mis=max-val if mis>0 then print(name..": "..mis) end end

Edit: If it lists nothing then you've already maxed out all the reputation.